rsvman2 are refusing to budge so far. ...
... Duke is definitely maintaining a higher academic standard than any other school in the top 25.
Well, that's good to hear! It's not like major college football was the bastion of academics - even before the portal and NIL. (I like the portal, it's good for more kids to get playing time instead of 95 man rosters. I'm also familiar with how different schools "promote" their image (not necessarily Duke). Just learned through personal experience from a gal who worked for me and had graduated from Penn State, one of those schools that would report great percentages of graduates. She'd picked-up a job as a student tutor. She'd write papers and take exams for players. Yes, anecdotal but she'd had no reason to make this disclosure as she just love PSU. I'm pretty sure this goes on at many a school. Hell, when I was at Pitt for undergrad '77-81 I'd skip football games to work additional shifts at a gas station, parking cars on game day. We stopped pumping gas. It was amazing to see players, from poor home regions (who'd become future stars in the NFL), parking their Eldorado's and the like. Hmmm... that was before NIL. LOL
